The CRCSI Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRCSI) along with LINZ’s New Zealand Geospatial Office, University of Canterbury and Waterways Centre for Freshwater Management held the ‘Better groundwater management workshop’ at Lincoln University on 29 June 2011.

The workshop was a huge success, bringing together a fascinating line-up of speakers from across the globe; Canada, Australia and throughout New Zealand.

Please find below presentations from the workshop:

1. Mary Sue Severn – CRCSI
About the CRCSI

2. Dr Bryan Jenkins – Waterways Centre for Freshwater Management
Introduction

3. Lucy Baker – Ministry for the Environment
Central government perspective, goals and strategies

4. Dr Chris Daughney – Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences
Monitoring New Zealand’s groundwater resources: the importance of geospatial information

5. Kathleen Crisley – Environment Canterbury
Case study 1 – Regional Perspective

6. Jim McLeod – Waikato Regional council
Case study 2 – Regional Perspective

7. Professor Angus Hikairo Macfarlane
Case study 3 – Maori Perspective

8. Dr Vince Bidwell – Lincoln Ventures
Effective modelling of spatially-distributed data

9. Andrew Curtis – Irrigation NZ
Needs of the agricultural sector to support certainty and adaptive management

10. Dr John Bright – Aqualinc Research Limited
“WOW – the wheel of water” – governance methods and tools for setting limits on water use and nutrient discharge

11. Dr Zaffar Mohamed Ghouse – Sinclair Knight Merz Pty
Spatial data models for better ground water management – industry experience

12. Dr David Lemon – CSIRO
Sharing groundwater information: findings of the Groundwater Interoperability Experiment

13. Dr Alan Forghani – Murray-Darling Basin Authority
The role of spatial information in enabling the delivery of Australian government water policy

14. Dr Nick Hedley – Simon Fraser University & GEOIDE
A Canadian perspective: using geovisualisation interfaces to improve multi-stakeholder understanding of Okanagan Basin hydrogeology, and mobile interfaces to support in situ watershed education.

Nick Hedley
http://www.sfu.ca/geography/people/faculty/nick-hedley